Welcome to Our Audiovisual Page
The
Madison Public Library has
two video
collections on cassettes
and DVDs, an audio book collection on cassettes and on CDs,
and a
music CD collection.
Details about each collection are given below.
The audiobook collections (cassette and CD) are on
shelves in the New Book area. The
Instructional Videos/ TV/ Classic
Comedies & Musicals/
Theatrical
Entertainment
on videocassette
collections are
on
shelves to the right of the door as
you enter the Library.
DVDs/VIDEOCASSETTES (two
collections)
Instructional/ TV series/ Classic Comedies & Musicals/ Theatrical
Entertainment
on videocassette
These
cover a wide range of topics such as travel, art,
gardening, theater, opera, sports, ancient history, health, computers, and dog
training. We also have many PBS videos, including
such classics as The
Civil War, Elizabeth R, several Morse
seasons,The Jewel in the Crown, Jeeves and Wooster.
Our classic comedies and musicals include The Honeymooners, Hope and Crosby
"Road" titles, I Love Lucy, Fawlty Towers, My Fair Lady, Singin' in the Rain,
films by Esther Williams, Betty Grable and Doris
Day and many more. This
collection is arranged by author or title if
fiction and Dewey decimal number according to
subject if non-fiction. They are
available in both
DVD
and
cassette format. These
may be checked out for two weeks by anyone with a library card in the Morris
Area
Information
Network.
We have a selection of TV shows including Monk, The
Sopranos, Twenty-four, Heroes, House, M.D., 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, Felicity, The
Forsyte Saga, The Prisoner and The Office.
We have
many
videocassettes
which include modern hits, classics and foreign films..
These may be borrowed for two weeks. These and the
PBS & classic comedies and musicals collections will be found to the
right of the entrance across from the Circulation Desk.
The non-fiction collection can be found to the
left of the entrance across from the Circulation Desk.
Theatrical Entertainment Videos
on DVD
These are films that have appeared in movie theaters.
We have both domestic and foreign titles. We have a large collection on
DVD. These
may be borrowed for two days
for a fee of $1.00 per
title and have a
$1.00/day fine.
They are found in display cases near the Information Desk
They
may be checked out for two days
by anyone with a library
card in the Morris
Area
Information
Network.
SPOKEN WORD AUDIOBOOKS
- There are two collections:
Audiobooks
on CD
and on
cassette
and
Language & Test Preparation Audiocassettes.
Audiobooks on CD
This is a new and growing collection. We have over 1,500 titles. These are
found in the New Book section immediately before the audiobooks on
cassette. Anyone may take out up to five titles for two
weeks.
Audiobooks
on Cassette We have over
1,000 abridged and unabridged audiobooks
on tape.
These are found in the New Book section.
Anyone may take out up to five titles for two
weeks.
Language & Test Preparation
CD/Audiocassettes Do you need to
improve your language skills? From Arabic to English to Thai we have over fifty Language
& Test Preparation Tapes. Card holders from any Morris
Area Information
Network
library may check out a tape on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew,
Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Thai.
We
also have tapes to help you study for the TOEFL, NTE, and MSAT
tests.
These are found in the New Book section immediately after the audiobooks on
cassette.A maximum of three tapes may be checked out for two weeks.
CIRCULATING MUSIC CDs -
Music CDs There
are over 1600 music CDs in our collection.
They are found in display cases near the Information Desk and are
arranged by music categories. These are Chamber Music,
Country & Western, Easy Listening, Folk Music,
Holiday, Jazz & Big Band, Musicals,
Movie
& TV Soundtracks, New Age Music, Orchestral
Music, Opera, Popular, Solo Instruments,
Vocal
(primarily classical)
and
World Music. Anyone with a card from a M.A.I.N. library can check out up to five CDs for two weeks.
WARNING: Some car CD players may be
damaged by CDs with barcodes on them.